Industry 101, Part 1: Getting an Agent
April
29
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
What you need to get ready to query, how you do it, whom you target, how to change agents if you have one who isn’t working well for you, and all the other nuts and bolts for getting your foot in the door.
With WCYA graduates Catherine Laudone (’23) and Linda Camacho (’14), moderated by Victoria Wells Arms (’19).
Join us April 29 at 7 pm EST by registering here or at the link below!
Meet our panelists and moderator:
Linda Camacho is an agent at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency. She started out on the other side of publishing and held various positions at Simon & Schuster, Writers House, and Penguin Random House. She has an MFA in children’s writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and represents writers and illustrators across both the children’s and adult categories. To get a better sense of the projects she gravitates toward, be sure to check out LindaCamacho.com.
Catherine Laudone is a children’s book author and senior editor living in New Jersey. She works at Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. She has over twelve years of experience editing children’s books, including New York Times bestsellers, Indie Kids’ Next Picks, Junior Library Guild selections, titles with starred reviews, and state award winners. She has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She Kept Dancing: The True Story of a Professional Dancer with a Limb Difference is her picture book debut coauthored with Sydney Mesher and illustrated by Natelle Quek. When not writing or editing, she enjoys traveling, drinking chocolate tea, baking, and playing with her cat, Biscotti. Learn more at catherinelaudone.com.
Victoria Wells Arms is a literary agent at Hannigan Getzler Literary Agency where she specializes in children’s for all ages, as well as select adult fiction and food books. Before becoming an agent, she spent twenty years as an editor and was the founding editorial director at Bloomsbury USA’s Children’s Division, where she worked with many bestselling and award-winning authors. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Victoria lives in New York City and Ithaca, NY.
